Artist: Julianne Ross Allcorn
Artwork size: 51 x 123cm
Medium: Pencil, gouache and watercolour on Birchwood panel
Price: $8,500 framed
Artist’s Statement
The Bathers in a Woven Landscape is a meditation on the female form, artistic legacy, and the presence of women as creators, not just subjects. Inspired by a life-drawing workshop I led, where a model posed in gestures drawn from Degas, Lautrec, Schiele, and Bonnard, the work takes historical male perspectives as a point of departure, not conclusion.
Interwoven are imagined conversations with women artists past and present: Amber Creswell-Bell, Wendy Sharpe, Suzanne Valadon, Alice Neel, Laura Knight, and Paula Modersohn-Becker. Their voices I seek to respect and bring forward into art history.
Set in the Australian bush, a landscape I deeply respect and spend much of my time in capturing all she offers, the figures merge with their environment, reclaiming visibility and space. Working in mixed media on wood panels, I embed texture, layers and memory into the surface. At its core, this work is about respect for women, for nature and for the enduring strength of the female artist.
